Featured Makers

The national benchmark for solventless concentrate. Persy Water Hash and Persy Rosin are what serious connoisseurs measure everything else against. In Michigan, where the buyer often has tried the best of Colorado and California, 710 Labs is the shelf that says the state is not playing catch-up.

Michigan's most recognized vape brand, built in Metro Detroit and distributed statewide. Five-times-distilled oil, ceramic coils, no fillers, no Vitamin E acetate. Their Gelato #33 distillate cartridge is the #1-selling Mitten product in Michigan month after month. Bold flavors, powerful potency, unmatched consistency — and a Liquid Diamond infused pre-roll that Reddit called the best in Michigan for 2025.

Michigan's most-awarded cannabis brand — 120+ Cannabis Cup wins. Headquartered in Marshall, Common Citizen operates one of the largest indoor cultivation facilities in the state. Products organized around four human need states: Daily Dose, Sweet Relief, Time to Shine, and Unplug. Consistent quality, fair pricing, and the flower brand that answers 'give me a solid eighth' over and over again.

Lansing's own. Founded by Sam Usman Jr. — East Lansing native, MSU grad — Pro Gro began as a 72-plant caregiver project and grew into Michigan's most decorated cultivation brand. The 10,000-plant facility in a former bowling alley on MLK Blvd is one of the most remarkable buildings in Michigan cannabis. City Pulse readers voted them Best Cannabis Growing Brand two consecutive years.

Precision dosing. The brand that pioneered the cannabis transdermal patch and built a wellness-forward line most of Michigan hasn't caught up to. Their Relief 1:1 patch won the 2023 Michigan High Times Cup. For the buyer who wants function — sleep, pain relief, focus — without recreational effects, Mary's Medicinals is the correct answer.

Craft meets design. The Strain Art Pre-Roll line — 10-packs with illustrated packaging by Michigan artist Carla Schierling, 28 collectible designs — is one of Michigan cannabis's genuinely beautiful objects. But the craft is real beyond the packaging: Michigan OG flower, Fruit Stand vape carts, Hash House gummies.

Ann Arbor's own brand, made in Michigan. Pheno-hunted, small-batch-pressed, meticulously labeled. Their Mandarin Z live rosin is Detroit Metro Times' pick for the cultivator's best strain. Named releases like Mackinaw Peachez, Project Z, and Rainbow Belts are inventory, not imports. When you shop Information Entropy the brand, you're shopping the most local option possible — and it happens to be genuinely great.

Michigan-born concentrate legend. Partnered with Trinity Cannabis for small-batch craft cultivation, Cannalicious has won Zalympix honors for their live rosin and built a statewide reputation that serious dabbers measure everything else against. RSO, live resin gummies, solventless disposables — a full-spectrum concentrate house.

Michigan-made, no-compromise live concentrate. Element runs zero distillate, zero botanical terpenes, zero additives — 100% live concentrate sourced from Michigan's finest cultivators. Detroit's quiet favorite among purists, and the live rosin disposable that reviewers call the best in the state.

A benchmark for top-tier flower that goes beyond chasing THC numbers. Dense, trichome-covered buds with complex terpene profiles. Their Face Meltz strain — Face Off OG × Grimace OG — is exactly the kind of thing Photi points people toward. One of the brands that makes Michigan flower worth seeking out by name.

Female and minority-owned, operated out of Detroit with founders who bring degrees in science, health, and technology, and 10+ years in the Michigan cannabis industry. Calyxeum is redefining who cannabis is for and what it looks like when it's done with expertise and intention. Inclusive, rigorous, community-forward.

"People and plants are better together." Butter is a Michigan cannabis lifestyle brand with a philosophy built around quality products for everyone. Clean branding, clear mission, genuine Michigan roots — and a Ferndale dispensary location that puts the brand on the ground in one of Michigan's most interesting cannabis cities.

Carbon is Fluresh's premium terpene-forward brand, grown in Grand Rapids at T.H.C.'s 133,000-square-foot facility. 14-week cultivation cycle, whole-plant hang-dry, extended cure, 100% hand-trimmed. The Artist Series packaging won a Shortlist Clio Cannabis award. Detailed terpene info on every jar — one of the few Michigan brands that puts that data right on the label.

One of the Michigan craft cultivator brands that actual cannabis people talk about. Fluresh's own Cannabis Advisers name Plant Nerd as 'one of Michigan's best cultivator brands.' Dense bud structure, well-balanced hybrid effects, and terpene profiles that keep people coming back to specific phenotypes. Platinum Pave built the brand's reputation in West Michigan specifically.

The Michigan flower brand built on consistency at a fair price. High Supply's Madd Fruit sativa — sativa-forward, fruit-heavy, uplifting — is the kind of daytime strain that becomes someone's permanent morning pick. In a Michigan market where price compression has made quality harder to find, High Supply delivers.

Dennis and his brother Rob — along with their father, who helped build the facility — started Mi Loud in 2018. Third licensed cultivator in Michigan when medical sales began. Every harvest gets a two-week hang dry and a full cure. 'We run the flower full-term,' Dennis says. 'We're not pushing it out.' Metro Times named Mi Loud one of Michigan's 15 most reliable brands for 2026.

Family-owned, Seed Junkie genetics, Frosted Frankie infused pre-rolls, Penjamin live resin vapes — and Sweet Justice, Michigan's first cannabis-infused soda. For every can sold, Franklin Fields donates to the Great Lakes Expungement Network. For every Commissary Cart sold, they donate directly to federal cannabis prisoners. This is a brand that grows excellent weed and has thought carefully about what it owes the community that legalized it.

Founded by Shannon Walters in Traverse City in 2009 after years studying under a classically-trained French chef and managing 100+ acres of wine grapes. Michigan's original single-source, single-strain, zero-additive all-cannabis vape cartridge. Whole plant fresh-frozen at -40°F, extracted to live resin, distilled for smoothness. 36+ High Times Cannabis Cup awards. Six consecutive first-place wins for live resin vape carts.

Will Bowden started Grasshopper with a simple premise: grow cannabis in the actual Michigan sun, with actual Michigan farmers, on actual Michigan land. 160+ acres. 4,500+ outdoor plants. 30+ strains. 60+ years of combined growing expertise. The farm that proves sun-grown Michigan cannabis can compete with any indoor operation — with reusable, collectible pre-roll tins that set a new standard for sustainable packaging.

Lansing's own craft rosin operation. Small team, serious focus — Eastside Alchemy does nothing but live rosin, and it shows. Detroit Metro Times named them one of Michigan's 15 cannabis brands that consistently deliver quality. The Lansing brand that proves the city isn't just where cannabis laws are written — it's also where a small crew of dedicated extractors is making some of the best solventless concentrate in the state.

Michigan-made cannabis tea from Emerald Canning Partners. Exactly 10mg THC per can, nano-emulsified for fast onset (15–30 minutes vs. 60–120 for standard edibles), no alcohol, no crash. Three flavors: Raspberry, Peach, Lemon. The beverage that makes the case for cannabis in the most practical terms possible: a 10mg can that tastes good and works when they said it would.

The cannabis version of Jones Soda — produced in Michigan by Emerald Canning Partners. Classic Jones Soda flavors, infused with THC. The gateway beverage for anyone who remembers collecting the photo-label bottles. Root Beer. MF Grape. Orange & Cream. Berry Lemonade. Michigan nostalgia in a 10mg can.

Tom Farrell and Seth Miller built Growing Pains by hand — literally installed the plumbing and irrigation themselves, traveled cross-country to source genetics nobody else in Michigan had. Three Zalympix awards, including for Honey Banana — Metro Times called it one of the hardest to find in Michigan, tasting like 'banana bread stuffed with strawberries and honey.' Farrell pioneered the half-ounce jar format that changed how premium Michigan flower gets sold.

Michigan's number one live rosin brand. 15+ cannabis cup wins. 1st place at the 2024 High Times Michigan Cannabis Cup for Non-Solvent Live Rosin (Oishii strain). The first Michigan brand to outsell Colorado's 710 Labs for monthly rosin volume. Five flavor profiles — candy, citrus, floral, funky, gassy — pressed with triple-filter reverse osmosis water from a 45-strain genetics vault in Pinconning.

The name came during a breakfast in Costa Rica combining 'terpenes' and 'purple.' Prohibition-era art deco packaging, repurposed Lansing industrial building, entirely self-funded. MichiGanja Report reader's choice top 10. G.O.A.T.S. of Cannabis Trophy winner (voted on by Cheech Marin). First place infused pre-rolls at the Great Lakes Expungement Network Topshelf Showdown — a blind test. Pre-rolls use only full flower sifted twice.

Fifty-plus years of combined caregiver experience, built into a facility designed from the ground up. Explicit pushback against corporate cannabis. Clean burn, white ash, loud smell, big flavor — the four benchmarks they list publicly and check off run after run. Fluence LED lighting, adventurous genetics: Candy Blues (Blue Oreoz × Cotton Candy Gelato) is the signature — 'sugary aroma that hits you on the first whiff.'

Vertically integrated. Lume grows their own Michigan cannabis, extracts their own concentrates, bottles their own vapes, and sells them all exclusively through Lume dispensaries. Their Gold Label Live Rosin line is the brand's crown jewel. Jenny Kush is their flagship proprietary strain. A Michigan cannabis story told seed to shelf, from Evart to every Lume retail location in the state.

Michigan-native concentrate processor crafting cartridges entirely from cannabis-derived terpenes — zero botanicals, zero additives. The Caramel Apple Gelato Cured Resin cart was the #1 selling vape in Michigan in January 2026. A rising Michigan brand for the buyer who wants purity without the premium price of 710 Labs.